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Americans have always been a bit uneasy about manners. It has been presumed that in contrast to Old World artificiality, the citizens of the New World were, and should remain, sincere and straightforward. At the same time, in a highly mobile society newly successful Americans must often learn quickly how...
That has been especially so in the past two decades, as this week's cover story on new American manners points out. One popular up-to-date guidebook to shifts in manners since World War II, and particularly since the sexual revolution of the '60s, is The Amy...
Senior Writer Lance Morrow, who, as one of the magazine's essayists, has offered views on such matters as social kissing (to be done sparingly) and necktie wearing (to be avoided, if possible), welcomes most of the new manners. He displays an admirable generosity of spirit in allowing women...
Though Morrow considers his own manners an irreproachable model of civility, he admits certain doubts about politesse between the sexes. For example, he exercises special caution at the entrance of his apartment building. "The doors there are quite heavy, and I hold them open for anyone following me, male or...
Who can sort out these social mysteries? It has become extremely complicated to be polite in America. There was a time when the upwardly mobile and socially inecure believed as fervently as The Four Hundred that there existed somewhere?in the mind of God, perhaps, or the graven tablets of...